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Impressionism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Impressionism History | 19th Century Art Movement |
| Painting that started Impressionism | Impression Sunrise by Claude Monet |
| Father of Impressionism | Claude Monet |
| Was it a leeway to other movements? | Yes |
| What did Impressionism do? | It recreated the sensation in the eye that views the subject |
| Impressionist AKA | Painters of the Light |
| What did Claude Monet paint? | Lily ponds and gardens |
| What did Auguste Renoir paint? | People Outdoors |
| What did Edgar Degas paint? | Dancers, theaters, circus, horse races |
| What did Camille Pissarro paint? | Cities and streets, boulevards |
| What did Alfred Sisley paint | Rivers and Landscapes, countrysides |
| What did Mary Cassatt paint | Women and children |
| Artist's views on Photography | Artists felt the technology of photography was ruining the art of painting. They felt the need to create a new style of painting |
| Public's view on Impressionism | They hated the paintings at first but gradually came to like them |
| What did Impressionism grab? | A fresh and original vision that art critics disapproved |
| Characteristics of Impressionism | Visible brushstrokes, light colors, emphasis on light and changing quantities of it, ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, open composition (Landscapes) |
| Vincent Van Gogh's nationality | DUTCH not French |
| Vincent Van Gogh facts | -Post-Impressionist -2nd Vincent Van Gogh -Brother died at and early age and was named after him -1886 moves to Paris -Did most of his paintings in south of France (Arles) -"Starry Night" was painted in Asylum |
| How many paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell? | 1 painting for $80 |
| Vincent Van Gogh's younger brother Theo | -Very close -Theo's wife collected all of Van Gogh's paintings and made him famous |
| George Seurat is the Father of what? | Pointillism |
| George Seurat Facts | -From a wealthy family -Post-Impressionism -"The Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" |
| Paul Cézanne Facts | Obsessed with painting Le Mont St. Victoire |
| Paul Cézanne is the Father of what? | Modern Art |
| Alfred Sisley's nationalities are what? | He was born in France but his parents were British |
| Alfred Sisley Facts | -Father was wealthy -Owned a silk business -Educated in England -Only one that painted snow ("Snow at Louveciennes") -Married after 30 years with children |
| Camille Pissarro | -From a wealthy family -Father opened a dry-good store -French-Jewish -Born in the Caribbean |
| Paul Gauguin |
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